developed by stockholm-based humans since 1982, ‘a million times’ is an installation designed for victor hunt that is made from 288 special two-handed analogue clocks – powered by 576 electrical engines to drive the minute and hour hands independently – which collectively create a giant display which visually expresses the time digitally.
the 576 individual rotating hands to form extensive texts and elaborate customized patterns and graphics.
the expansive timepiece is a follow-up to the studio’s previous smaller-scale ‘clock clock’ which designboom covered during its development and completion.

The idea was to create a night photography timelapse video featuring his most popular subjects in this amazing country: the fairytale-like quivertrees and the eery, dead camelthorn trees in Deadvlei – something that had never been done before.
Marsel & Daniella

Scientists unveiled today an unprecedented new look at our planet at night. A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images from a new NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite, shows the glow of natural and human-built phenomena across the planet in greater detail than ever before.

There is a lot that goes into an eye tracking session. This isn’t just simple software you can download and it just works through your iSight camera or something. There are some indie hacker ways to do it inexpensively, but typically, an eye tracking setup is pretty pricy. The system SimpleFocus uses is Mirametrix. They are apparently fairly disruptive in this market since it’s priced so much lower than others in the market. Still, you’re looking at $10,000 for the hardware and software you need even with Mirametrix.

As the shadow of night falls across the American West a lone man begins his work. Far from the confines, calamity, and culture of society, multimedia artist and storyteller Jeff Frost sifts through the visual dregs of places and people who once were.
Combining still and time-lapse photography with motion, music, and art, Frost reveals a world rarely seen. Rooted in science and the exploration of space, Frost’s work explodes with light, fire, and sound, utilizing 2D and 3D perspective, leading the viewer on a unique visual journey through worlds both real and imagined.
- written by the amazing photographer and human being, Daniel Milnor

Google censored its homepage logo in the US to protest against two bills that could damage the Internet and destroy its core values. “Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA,” explains Google.

Google’s homepage also includes a link that asks users to “tell Congress: please don’t censor the Internet.” The censored logo is only available in the US, but the link is also displayed outside US.

Wikipedia and WordPress decided to make it more difficult to access their content. “For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history. Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia.”

This file is awesome if you want to put together some mock designs for your app. Even if you’re not an iPhone app developer yourself, you could use this to spec out your app before passing it to a developer.. giving you more control over the result.

Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.